Significance of reading and writing to Engineering & Technology students and connection between reading & writing

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Reading and writing for engineering and technology students is significant because it is important for everyday activities. Students are expected to be familiar with various engineering and technological terms for effective performance on their field, also for them to help non-technical individuals to understand easily each technical terms.

Each individual should have the right knowledge on how to right good reports, researches, proposals and advertisements to further discuss the objective of their program to everyone. Engineering and technology students must present their selves properly and read and write clear sentences with correct grammar. Having the right knowledge and self confidence about your field will give you the advantage to gain the trust of your audience. Gaining technical writing skills will help the student pass or succeed both academically and professionally.

Reading, which builds the knowledge base of written texts, helps language 2 learners acquire necessary language constructs such as grammatical structures and discourse rules for writing, and facilitates the process of language acquisition (Krashen’s (1984)). Both reading and writing are acts of communicative purposes and are inseparable (Internet TESL Journal).

Through reading, students gain the knowledge on how to write sentence properly, gain knowledge in vocabulary and reading grammar correctly. One cannot  write something correctly  if he/she doesn’t know how to read the text in front of him or her. Reading something involves a lot of texts that are written, that’s why both reading and writing are connected with each other.